Guest Post: Recognizing Pharmacist Practice Educators as Important Partners in Teaching Safe Patient Care Nov. 20, 2019 Guest Post

RECOGNIZING PHARMACIST PRACTICE EDUCATORS AS IMPORTANT PARTNERS IN TEACHING SAFE PATIENT CARE

UBC FACULTY OF PHARMACEUTICAL SCIENCES, OFFICE OF EXPERIENTIAL EDUCATION: PHARMACY PRACTICE EDUCATOR OF THE YEAR AWARDS

In the Entry-to-Practice Doctor of Pharmacy (E2P PharmD) program at the University of British Columbia Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences, students complete 44 weeks of experiential education across four years. Our practice educators ongoingly contribute to our students’ professional growth and development to become our future pharmacist colleagues. While on practicum, practice educators teach, guide, and directly supervise our students to ensure they are providing safe and effective care. Engaging our students in patient care and service activities involve them working with patients, caregivers, and other health care providers to identify drug therapy problems and to develop care plans. 

To acknowledge the important role that our practice educators play in teaching and supervising our students, the Pharmacy Practice Educator of the Year Awards (2018/2019) were presented at the annual Celebrate the Pharmacy Practice Educator, Facilitator, and Community Partner Appreciation Event on October 22, 2019 at the Delta Hotels Burnaby Conference Centre in Burnaby, BC. The awards recognize practice educators for our E2P PharmD Program and the Canadian Pharmacy Practice Program’s international pharmacy graduates seeking licensure in BC. We received 120 student-initiated nominations for practice educators across the province and a total of 33 awards were presented at the event. A number of guests traveled from outside the Lower Mainland and the province to attend. 

The recipients are:

PHRM 171

Introductory Pharmacy Practice Experience - Outpatient I

• Gabriella Wong 
• Nicole Chaudhari
• Nancy Ly
• Jamie Burnett
• Mandip Bajwa

PHRM 271

Introductory Pharmacy Practice Experience - Outpatient II

• Vishal Parmar
• Chukwudi Nwosu
• Brenda Park

PHRM 272

Introductory Pharmacy Practice Experience - Inpatient

• Christopher Chase Fisher
• Charles Au
• Reginald Smith
• Carla Dumaresque
• Kaitlyn Poggemoeller

PHRM 371

Introductory Pharmacy Practice Experience - Outpatient III

• Dawson Bremner
• Chris Cameron 
• Bijan Mahmoudi
• Bennedick Koh
• Kalvin Liu
• Ana Baskalovic

PHRM 471

Outpatient Advanced Pharmacy Practice Experience

• Gary ​​Shum

PHRM 472

Inpatient Advanced Pharmacy Practice Experience

• Michelle Stewart
• Jana Lee
• Benjamin Wou 

PHRM 473

Selected Advanced Pharmacy Practice Experience

• Outpatient: Bojana Dzombeta
• Outpatient: Cam Bonell
• Inpatient: Marianna Leung
• Inpatient: Eric Beaudoin
• Inpatient: Eva Cho
• Inpatient: Nicole Bruchet
• Non-Direct Patient Care: Debra Kent
• Non-Direct Patient Care: Richard Slavik

Structured Practical Training (UBC Canadian Pharmacy Practice Program)

• Shawn Sandhu
• Shingara (Gerry) Kang

We congratulate all of our award recipients and nominees and would like to use this opportunity to thank every practice educator and supporting pharmacist across our province for their incredible support for our students’ development as public health care providers. For more information on the Pharmacy Practice Educator of the Year Award, please visit our website. For photos from the event, please find them on our Facebook page. 

Gabriella Wong, BSc(Pharm), RPh

Gabriella is a lecturer and coordinator with the UBC Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Office of Experiential Education. She coordinates experiential education practicum courses in the third year of the Faculty’s E2P PharmD program. She also co-coordinates the second year Community Service Learning course. Gabriella is also the interim lead for practice educator development and remote/rural community engagement.